SAN JOSE DVENTIST ACADEMY

San Roque II, San Jose, Occidental, Mindoro

1st Quarter Examination

`S.Y. 2022-2023
21 Century Literature from the Philippines and the world
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Name: ____________________________________ Score: ______________________

Section: ______________________________________ Date: _____________________

I. Encircle the letter of the correct answer

1. The myth of the creation of Mayon is a story of star-crossed lovers with a tragic ending
that led to the rise of the volcano. Legend has it that a beautiful maiden named Magayon, lived
in a place called Ibalon.
What can you suggest among the following statements, that would transform the story to
another genre?
a. The two lovers were buried on top of this mountain, as time pass by, the mountain
merged as one.
b. The reason why you feel sadness whenever you are on this mountain, is because of the
lovers ungranted chance.
c. The love that is strong and inseparable despite challenges, they are able to stand and
accept their fate and set reminder to people, that whatever happens, as long as you love
each other, stand firm and it will be worth fighting for.
d. After the death of this lovers, comes the story that hasn’t vanish until today, and until
now, it was believed that they are the reason why there is Mayon.
2. The following facts is a standard to consider a certain genre without mentioning the type of
genre itself, “horrified at his foolishness and afraid of his wife's rage, the Sun hid.
The Moon came back to an empty sky house, and discovered what happened. After some
time, the Sun returned, and he and the Moon had a terrible fight.
The Sun threw the jungle vegetables at the Moon's face, and that was the final straw.” Pick
one of the following criteria would this plot fall into?
a. Gives us a background about the people’s belief that this actually took place a long time
ago.
b. It fits here, the plot presents humor to it, and it convince us that the illustration shares
valuable conduct we should follow.
c. It tells us a story of victory over somebody’s ideas
d. It has something to do with witchcraft and enchantments
3. The society we are living today isn’t perfect, and is getting worst until today, it impacts you
and the people you love, suggest one of the following statements you think, that will fit the
statement to solve such societal problem?
a. Everything can be solved by being vocal to the government about it
 b. Quick solution is to gain advantage to people who is in authority because you are youth
and can’t do nothing to solve the issue
c. Be vocal with your sentiments and your demands by means of Rizal’s approach
d. Being a member of revolution will be the best approach, it will give you the advantage
and you will also be protected by the people around you, plus you can state all your
request to the government, if not, surprise them with your dominance by inflicting fear to
them.
4. As a citizen of this society and one of the famous poets of today’s society, I fell in love to
themes with regards to native culture, customs and beauties of nature and surrounding.
Of the following statements, what do you think could verify, that I’m on the period that you
think I am right now?
a. Young people like me are so expressive with their importance in the society
b. It happened that my alphabet was replaced by the ones that Romans have
c. Most of the facts that the society shares with us are the updates in economic progress,
discipline, culture, tourism and to sensationalized killing, rape and robberies, I don’t
know more about my society but this is the least I can remember.
d. The use of ICT is the trend on my society
5. Rizal’s writing has arisen during this year?

a. 1872 to b. 1941 to c. Rebirth of d. Post Edsa

1896 1945 freedom Revolution

6. What is the year period for Japanese period?

a. 1941 to b. 1841 to c. 1898 to d. 21st

1945 1845 1944

7. When Earth falls under attack from invincible aliens, no military unit in the world is able to
beat them. Maj. William Cage an officer who has never seen combat, is assigned to a suicide
mission.
Killed within moments, Cage finds himself thrown into a time loop, in which he relives the
same brutal fight -- and his death -- over and over again. However, Cage's fighting skills
improve with each encore, bringing him and a female comrade ever closer to defeating the
aliens. This is a plot extracted from Edge of tomorrow, choose one plot that you think will revise
the genre. Among these plots, what do you think suits the best to change the genre?
a. Cage and this new comrade he met invented a solution to pause the time during the loop.
b. Cage and his comrade managed to create a machine that will help them travel faster in space
and time.
c. Cage and his comrade addressed issues about the life of his comrade, they talked about the
love and relationship of his comrade, and the things that makes his comrade unique.
d. They manage the sneak inside the Alien laboratory and killed the heart of the king Alien.
8. You went to the library and decided to open a book, upon opening it, there’s nothing inside
of the book except pictures. You understand that literary piece can be understood by just simply
looking at it, while looking on that book, you decided to learn more about the plot and share it
with your classmates. But the problem is, they are weak in understanding literary pieces that
includes picture and they often misunderstood the plot, they suggest that you look for other
books with more character conversation. What steps would you consider, for them to appreciate
the literature.
a. Just show them the book and they will understand
b. Add minimal amount of text
c. Create a conversive type of literature for them to appreciate
d. Make it like a cartoon and add more colors to caught their imagination
9. You successfully shared the literature to your friends, and they finally appreciated the plot of
the literature. But you want your best friend who loves reading newspaper and other non-
fictional books to have a same experience with ones whom you have shared the poem. What
literature changes would you do, for your friend to appreciate it.
a. Add more plot to the draft you’ve created
b. Add more pictures for him to appreciate
c. Add more plot that will talk about science
d. Extract ideas that concern reality as an additive to it
10. You went to Mt. Pulag to spend some time and to appreciate the top view of the mountain, you
are a type of people who love to feature nice views in your journal.
But this moment, you forgot to bring notebooks with you and the only thing you have inside
your bag that might help you, is your phone. You still want to share it with your friends even if
you don’t have notebook where you can journal your experience. How are you going to share or
present your experience to your friends from a far without the use of notebook.
a. Use phone to type journal in it
b. Present it with the use of power point presentation
c. Make a blog about it and send it to them
d. Make a short poem about it

In the fields I see time to the beats of the rhyme.

11. Which statement is relevant for the line above?
a. A man that searches for something hears something
b. A man that Identifies the aroma of something tastes something
c. A man that looks straight to your eyes, touches your heart
d. A man looking for the something that can’t be seen
12. To a stroke of a finger on the surface of my skin touches within.
If you pick from the other lines. Who among them do you think equals the line above?
a. A sound of your voice strikes my heart
b. You pluck my string and you tune me like guitar
c. At the wall of your heart is a gauze of betrayal
 d. A loud voice can be heard upon the wall
13. Your heart and mind’s reflection shines bright
Can be seen through the peephole of your door
You’ve been hurt that’s what your eye tells
At last, a word of goodbye to us
Upon reading the stanza, have you observed some changes in pattern?
a. No, can’t see any changes
b. Yes, the last doesn’t portray the same image
c. No, they have oneness of image
d. Yes, they are aligned, judging by the main idea in each line
14. How could you verify if a certain line possesses image.
a. Explains the theme of the poem
b. Captures our imagination
c. Forces us to feel the emotion at the moment
d. It possesses literary features that gives rhythmic patter to it.
15. You are asked by your teacher to report inside the class, the teacher has already introduced some
of the creative presentation of literary text. The topic that the teacher has given you is all about
political Ideologies and of course you have to put emphasis to the topic to make it interesting,
the problem is, you have no TV inside the classroom for presentation. Which of the following
situation suits best for this?
a. Make a web blog about the topic and have them scroll and read the content.
b. Play a video of yourself discussing the topic inside the class
c. Live discussions with the use of mind mapping techniques
d. Create a textual tag of articles and speeches for reporting emphasis
16. Mostly used when there is a reporting activity inside the class

a. Mobile Phone Text Tula c. Tag cloud

b. Slide Show Presentation d. Blog

17. Which of the following best describes tag cloud?

a. Created with the use of Microsoft
b. Graphical technique to visualize connections of ideas and pieces of information
c. Articles that we update regularly
d. Visual media
18. Which of the following presentation will make video presentation unapplicable?
a. Business
b. Classroom presentation
c. Blog
d. Remote Area presentation
19. Typhoon has come and you have been stranded with your family, you are managing to
evacuate before the flood level goes up. It happened that you’ve doubted your rate of survival
 upon the situation, but in the end, rescuers have rescued you and your family just in time. You
are now safe from the flood. do you think the situation portrays mainly human and identity?
a. Yes, indeed it is, because the situation makes the reader doubt about his survivability
b. No, because the plot of the story mainly hits focuses on the struggles of weather
c. No, the plot portrays two situations
d. Yes, because its first person
20. Angelo was an ordinary kid in their school, he is friendly and has a good attitude, but
like the other kid in their school, he is often bullied by his classmates.
One day. Same thing happened and he decided to punch the bully’s face. The bully was
fierce and wanted to take revenge, that day it happened that Angelo is walking his way home,
until he saw a group of young people patiently waiting for somebody, it was the bully,
Angelo was now struggling in a situation where in, he was given the choice to involve or not
involve himself in a street brawl, he knows that his choice will impact the state of his situation,
he was doing his best not to involve himself with the street brawl but there is no point of
retreating anymore.
And then he decided to land a few hits to knock down the opponents, he managed to run
after the incident and was able to save himself from total danger. Which of the following
statements is relevant to the plot?
a. Conflict suggests that the main character is struggling to weather.
b. It gives background that the main character managed to save himself
c. The plot illustrates that the character is having a situation check on his own
d. Shares an idea that the character is having a problem with the society
21. What criteria should you use in order for the plot to focus on one conflict.
a. Create one more situation that will emphasize the conflict of main character to the group
b. Put emphasis on decision struggle of the main character
c. Add more situation pertaining the decision making of the character
d. Remove the other situation to make it focus in one.
22. We can also consider this as “conflict within.”

a. Men vs Men c. Men vs Society

b. Men vs nature d. Men vs himself

23. Who is the author of Apo on the wall?

a. Sandra Nicole Roldan c. Merlinda Bobis

b. BJ Patino d. Dj Khaleed

24. A Teacher was stressed out of her students misbehaving inside the class. One Monday morning,
one of her students doesn’t obey her commands and so she decided to change the environment
of her class, she started by showing negative emotions to them, that make them really
uncomfortable, they went silent for a bit. In some other week, the students inside the class
behaves positively than they were before. What did the teacher do to change their behavior?
 a. The students followed because of the rewards they will receive to the teacher
b. There is a good relationship between the students and the teacher
c. It seems that the teacher managed to inflict fear to the rest of the week, that forced them
to follow the teacher
d. The Incident of was been witnessed by the other students from the other section and
managed to contact the parents secretly about it.
25. On the poem, “Apo on the wall, lines 17, 18 and 19” do you agree with the statement of the
author?
a. Yes, because peace is what we always long to have
b. No, because there is no such thing as Apo
c. No, you don’t have to hold guns and be part of violence to prove yourself a Man
d. Yes, like the painting, it reminds us that there is always someone who see us above
26. What person is Apo in Apo on the wall?

a. Father c. Soldier
b. Son d. Photo

27. Who is the author of the short story, “Safe House.”

a. Sandra Nicole Roldan c. Merlinda Bobis

b. BJ Patino d. Ron Darvin

28. Which of the following is relevant to the short story?

a. Being involved in a revolution makes you a man
b. If you join to this type organization, it will bring you death in conclusion
c. Its good to be a member of the revolution, even if you don’t know what you fight for
d. The effect of the revolution to the minds of this children will affect them till they grow
old.
29. Which of the following theme suits the best?

a. Death and sacrifice c. Rebel, revolutionaries and

b. Experience, regret and dissidents
remembrance d. Love, hate and destruction

30. Can you see double meaning in the story?

a. There is no double meaning in the title of the story
b. There is double meaning because the title itself could have two meanings when read
c. It was mentioned in the plot that there is double meaning
d. No proven evidence means; no
31. What ending suits the best for the short story?
a. All of the revolutionary members died.
b. The father went to jail.
c. The Daughter slept inside his father’s cell and died.
 d. The Daughter came into realization.
32. Which of these statements relevantly compliments the short story?
a. Dying with glory is better than dying for nothing.
b. Unmeaningful battle takes sure defeat.
c. Improper approach to battle could affects the lives of your family.
d. Impulsive battle gives resolution to a conflict
33. What does LGBT mean for?
a. LIKE GIRLS BUT TOMBOY
b. LOVE GAY BOY TOGETHER
c. LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER
d. LIVING GIRLS BUT TRANSGENDER
34. Which of the following statement shows that gender equality opposes the rules of the Bible?
a. Opposite gender can use public bathroom
b. Opposite gender hates other gender
c. Opposite gender falls in love with the gender of the same kind
d. Acceptance of opposite gender expression to the society
35. Which of the following shows negative impact to the homosexuality
a. The other gender was given the chance to use comfort room that doesn’t match their
gender
b. The other gender was given the chance to be employed amidst their gender
c. The other gender was given the chance to love besides disconcerted gender
d. The other gender was given the chance to exercise the privilege of their chosen identity
36. Which of the following literature, talks something about the gender issue?

a. Apo on b. Waiting c. Love of d. Safe

the wall books house

37. What statement best describes the story waiting by Ron Darvin?
a. Ofw’s are easy going people
b. Gives background to what happens to cheaters
c. It illustrates the life of an Ofw, the challenges they experience and the struggles that they
face.
d. It symbolizes the experience of the Filipinos on the other country
38. If you are the author, which of the following plot is relevant to dramatic irony?
a. The mother and son have stayed for good
b. People told them that they have the best family
c. Reader’s guess upon the literature is accurate
d. Reader’s emotion is involved
39. If you are the author, which of the following plot is relevant to situational irony?
a. The mother and son have stayed for good
b. People told them that they have the best family
 c. Reader’s guess upon the literature is accurate
d. Reader’s emotion is involved
40. If you are the author, which of the following plot is relevant to verbal irony?
a. The mother and son have stayed for good
b. People told them that they have the best family
c. Reader’s guess upon the literature is accurate
d. Reader’s emotion is involved